After 36+ hours of transit (including 14 hours in the Singapore’s lovely Changi Airport), I’m back in Squamish, BC and re-immersing myself in “traditional” education (not that Quest University is all that traditional). It’s hard to believe we were in Borneo for two months; that time seems like a sort of wormhole in my day-to-day [...]

It’s hard to believe that in seventeen days, I’ll be on the other side of the world experiencing a very different kind of “winter”. I’ve been fascinated with Borneo ever since grade 8, when I read Sam Lightener’s All Elevations Unknown, a memoir about a climbing expedition on the island. But I never expected that [...]

With so many people watching what happens at Copenhagen and fighting for more ambitious and legally binding treaties to combat climate change, this trip couldn’t have come at a better time.  This January and February I’m headed to Borneo in Indonesia with Ethical Expeditions, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to teaching youth about environmental sustainability [...]